Facebook, binge drinking, young women

I’ve just uploaded a revised version of “The Pedagogy of Regret: Facebook, binge drinking and young women” a paper co-authored with one of our GCS graduate students, Rebecca Brown. I’m so grateful to Rebecca for her work on this and the experience of collaborating together. It’s taught me a lot about the difficulty of writing [...]

Surveillance and Everyday Life

Sydney University’s Surveillance and Everyday Life project is running a two day conference next month, and the program (pdf) has just been announced. Looks like I’m speaking on day two. The paper is something I’m working on for a collection on ‘identity technologies’ edited by Anna Poletti and Julie Rak. This is one of a [...]

Willunga Connects – public release

This time a year ago I was heading off to Willunga, South Australia, to study the roll-out of the Australian Government’s National Broadband Network. Just before Christmas, the South Australian Government’s Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology released the public report on our findings. This is the only research of its kind that [...]

The 8 hour day in the iPhone age

This is my text for tonight’s ALP fringe event hosted by the Australian Services Union. The opening story is a small edited section from “On Call”, Chapter 9 of Work’s Intimacy. The first time we interviewed Jodi* she was enjoying working from home once every few weeks. These were days when Jodi was encouraged to [...]

Next project

Lots happening on the book front this week, which I’ll post about separately. For now, I just wanted to mention that I’ve updated my current research section to include a description of the project I hope to do next year while on sabbatical. ‘Work Smarter, Not Harder’ extends some of my previous work on technology [...]

Lost in The Suburbs

So the paper I am currently writing is about Mad Men, commuter narratives, the suburbs and this website (for some reason I seem to be on a run of articles analysing viral marketing campaigns. Not sure why that’s the case…) The paper is called “The Return of Organization Man” and I’m just trying to figure [...]

Moral economies of creative labour

Here is a pdf of my plenary talk at the Moral Economies of Creative Labour conference in Leeds. This piece will be extended in coming months for a new edited collection, so I welcome feedback. Eventually I’d like this paper to link up with some other ideas about time and measure inspired by Wendy Brown [...]

Academia.edu

After resisting for some time I have finally joined academia.edu. Initially I was reluctant to provide another online profile given that all my publications are listed here anyway. I was also hesitant because it had been recommended as yet another form of department promotion/branding at a time when I was already struggling with extensive online [...]

Research careers and the big questions

Last week’s class focused on career paths following a research degree. The readings were: • Genevieve Bell. “Be Naked as Often as Possible: Anthropological Advice.” Commencement address, School of Information, University of California, Berkley, 2008. • William James. “The PhD Octopus.” (originally published 1903). • Melissa Gregg. “Why Academia is No Longer a Smart Choice.” [...]

White collar intimacy

I have a new book chapter available in draft form. It’s a revised version of the talk I gave in Manchester last June at the Affective Fabrics of Digital Cultures conference. The book coming out of the conference is called Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion, with Palgrave as the publisher. Editors Adi Kuntsman [...]

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